What about developing "Le Barbu"

[cpasbanal]

Hello all,

I am a new developer on BGA Studio (as many people since the COVID).
I'd love to develop some "real" games for BGA but I must first become more comfortable with the framework. I've followed some of the tutorials (especially "hearts", very clear and explained a lot of what we are doing) and i think i understand how this works.

Before developing some "hard" games (and licensed ones ), I wish I'd give a try with the "Barbu" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbu_(card_game). Of course, I will have to find a lot of inspiration in hearts but it will make it more concrete to me.

My questions are:

• Does anyone has already started developing this game? (i haven't found it in the project list but I may have missed it)

• Is it a good choice to start getting my hands dirty? (seems easy enough but still interesting, no licence and still interesting game to add to BGA)

Thanks

[toubib]

Dear Mr Uncommon,

I don't know well the framework yet. But I do know the Barbu. I can give you the rules i used to learn in my family.
I guess that as a game with many variants it can have some "querelles de clocher" about which rules applies and when.


Best Regards

[Lilzer7]

Hi !

I think it's a good choice for a first project. I wanted to make one also as my second project. But it seems like there's already someone working on it in the studio projects list (yoyote) ! Perhaps you should ask him if the development is still going on. Anyway, i'm not an experienced developper in BGA but if you have any question, don't hesitate, i might be able to answer from my first game experience

[cpasbanal]

Thanks! I'll have a look at what yoyote has done so far.

As for the rules, I'll try to do my best from the wikipedia rules (and what I played when I was younger) and maybe develop some variants if needed.